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In a blog banter related post, I mentioned that my New Year’s Resolution was to embrace the online hate-fest which is multiplayer. Here’s my first update:
Star Trek: Legacy
“Legacy’s online play doesn’t play as well as say Halo 3 even if Live is running perfectly.” — Gstaff, Bethesda staff member
Happy
Getting a match to work. Seriously, I’m usually happy to get into one or two games a day and I have yet to experience a four-player fragfest.
Sad
Probably the weirdest thing that’s happened so far was entering a two-player co-op wave (protecting a starbase against Klingons) only to see my teammate’s fleet explode. On his screen, my fleet exploded so we ended up playing alternate realities of the same mission– although they both ended up with the Klingons overwhelming us. However, we could still talk so I heard a ten-minute lecture on the strengths of the Miranda-class starship and the role of the Constitution-class ships in the Dominion War.
Rainbow Six: Las Vegas
Happy
I love practically everything. Although I’m coming in way late, so I don’t know all the map exploits. Or the reason why people play LVU over and over and over. Also, I got booted after scoring five kills in a heated Deathmatch game — go me.
Sad
Playing LVU terrorist hunt with a ten-year-old Nazi– and I mean Nazi in the bad way. First off, he laughed because I’m new to R6’s multiplayer. Yeah, I may be a Private First Class, but I also have a sex life. Then this little dude orders us around the map and — since he turned friendly fire on — he’d frag us if we didn’t listen. “I told you not to go past the bookcase! *BLAM*”
I’ve since adopted a rule to avoid people with gamertags named after wrestlers.
On February 14th, 2008 at 9:15 am, Silvercube wrote:
I remember that blog banter.
Yes, xbox live really has its ugly side. I have seen and heard enough.
Which is why I stay away from shooting games, because thats where most of those idiots are.
I have yet to encounter any of them in DDR. I have made many friends from this game, both online and on the forums on Xbox.com :)
On February 14th, 2008 at 9:24 am, Terry wrote:
I keep telling my wife she needs to trash talk during Carcasonne. Actually, my friends and I just want her to keep yelling “Extreme!”